1993 In Sports ,
Other Events Of 1994 ,
1995 In Sports and the
List Of 'years In Sports' .
- , in a remarkable athletic achievement, Ireland 's 41-year-old Eamonn Coghlan becomes the first man over the age of 40 to run a sub-four minute mile when he clocked 3min.58.15sec.
- A strike by Baseball players results in the premature termination of the season and the cancellation of the Baseball/World Series , for the first time since 1904.
- Basketball magazine '' SLAM '' is launched, as the sport begins to develop a stronger Hip Hop Culture .
It was the final year Rugby League in Australia had it's national competition run by the New South Wales Rugby League . For 1995 it was to be titled the Australian Rugby League . It was also the end of a magnificent Winfield Cup trophy which was regarded as a symbol of the game's most successful era. Cast in bronze by Alan Ingham, it was the game's ultimate prize for the duration of the Winfield sponsorship from 1982-94.
- The 16 club teams for 1994 were:
Balmain Tigers ,
Brisbane Broncos ,
Canberra Raiders ,
Canterbury Bulldogs ,
Cronulla Sharks ,
Gold Coast Seagulls ,
Illawarra Steelers ,
Manly Sea Eagles ,
Newcastle Knights ,
North Sydney Bears ,
Parramatta Eels ,
Penrith Panthers ,
St. George Dragons ,
South Sydney Rabbitohs ,
Eastern Suburbs Roosters ,
Western Suburbs Magpies .
- ---All-Ireland Camogie Champion: Kilkenny
- ---National Camogie League:
- ---All-Ireland Senior Football Champion: Waterford
- ---National Football League: Monaghan
Men's Golf
- - $1,499,927
- - $1,402,519
- Tiger Woods becomes the youngest man ever to win the U.S. Amateur, at age 18.
Women's Golf
- won 4-1 over Russia in world tennis.
- January 5 — Brian Johnston , English cricketer, BBC radio commentator
- January 5 — Eliska Junkova (Elizabeth Junek), Grand Prix Motor Racing driver
- January 8 — Harvey Haddix , MLB baseball great, pitched 12 perfect innings for Pittsburgh Pirates
- January 9 — Johnny Temple , Major League Baseball player (1952-1964)
- January 29 — Ulrike Maier (26), Austrian World Cup skier, skiing accident
- July 14 — César Tovar , Major League Baseball player (1965-1976)
- November 12 — Wilma Rudolph , American track and field athlete
- February 5 — Fred De Bruyne , Flemish cyclist
- February 19 — Renske Vellinga (19), Dutch speed skater, auto-accident
- February 25 — Jersey Joe Walcott , World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
- April 15 — John Curry , English Olympic figure skating champion
- April 30 — Roland Ratzenberger (31), Austrian race car driver
- May 1 — Ayrton Senna , F1 race car driver
- May 10 — Eduardo Lausse , Argentinian middleweight boxer (b. 1927 )
- May 19 — Luis Ocaña , Spanish cyclist, Tour De France winner, suicide
- May 28 — Julius Boros , American golfer, US Open champion
- July 2 — Andrés Escobar , Colombian World Cup soccer player, murdered by unhappy fan(s)
- July 3 — Lew Hoad , Australian tennis player, Wimbledon Champion
- July 10 — Otto Bonsema , Dutch soccer player and trainer
- July 17 — Jean Borotra , French tennis player
- July 24 — Robert Wangila , Kenyan boxer (b. 1967 )
- August 5 — Terry Hibbitt , English Soccer star
- August 10 — Kay Petre , Canadian-born pioneer driver in British auto racing
- August 17 – Jack Sharkey , World champion heavyweight boxer
- August 24 — Jason McRoy 23, downhill mountain bike racer
- September 2 — Detlef Macha , champion German cyclist
- September 3 — Billy Wright , English soccer player
- September 18 — Vitas Gerulaitis , American tennis player
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